Dan Thoma, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently selected as a 2021 Honorary Member of AIME. Thoma was chosen by the board of TMS, …
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2021 Vilas Associates Competition awardees announced
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education has announced 23 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. …
Research effort driving advances to combat traumatic brain injuries
Many concussions don’t produce noticeable symptoms, leaving them likely to go undiagnosed and putting the injured at increased risk for lasting complications like brain damage. A team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineer Christian …
UW–Madison to Continue Fundamental Data Science Research with Phase II Award from NSF
University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison …
Fall Research Competition continues to support researchers, graduate students
Despite a year full of uncertainty, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers can still count on the Fall Research Competition. The annual contest offers funding for select research projects across each faculty division — biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and …
UW–Madison named member of new $25 million Midwest quantum science institute
As joint members of a Midwest quantum science collaboration, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the University of Chicago have been named partners in a National Science Foundation Quantum Leap …
Computerized Tomography Acquisition
The acquisition of a highly flexible Computerized Tomography (CT) X-ray System has added a powerful research instrument to the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 465 KeV (Kilo-electron-volt) system is capable of X-ray imaging …
Hu receives National Science Foundation nanoscale interactions grant
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems recently extended a Nanoscale Interactions Program grant for UW-Madison Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor and Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow Jiamian Hu. Hu serves as principal investigator …
American Family Insurance Data Science Institute awards “mini grants” to advance data science
MADISON — Nine teams of University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty and collaborators have been awarded nearly $1 million through the American Family Funding Initiative, a research competition for data science projects. Brian Yandell “The American Family Insurance …
Investigating Challenges and Opportunities in Data Science
Critical advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have been accelerated by experts in the College of Engineering. With the launch of a new impact area in Machine Learning and Optimization, Rob Nowak, Professor of …